Indian film All We Imagine As Light has won the Grand Prix award at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival. The Grand Prix is the second-most coveted prize of the film festival after the Palme d’Or. With the award, the Payal Kapadia directorial, starring Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam and Hridhu Haroon in the lead roles, has become the first Indian film to win the Grand Prix at Cannes.
All We Imagine As Light premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival in its much-feted ‘competition section’ on May 23. It was the first Indian film to feature in the festival’s main segment in 30 years. The last Indian movie to make it to competition section was Shaji N Karun’s Swaham in 1994.
